Azure Data Platform Engineer

Xebia is a global tech company with a team of 1,000+ experts delivering cloud, data, and software solutions. It originated from two Polish companies, PGS Software and GetInData, pioneers in cloud and Big Data. The company serves clients across industries such as fintech, e-commerce, aviation, logistics, media, and fashion, including McLaren, Aviva, Deloitte, Spotify, Disney, ING, UPS, Tesco, Truecaller, and Allegro. Xebia is a trusted partner of Databricks, dbt, Snowflake, Azure, GCP, and AWS, and was the first AWS Premier Partner in Poland. They actively support tech communities and employee growth through meetups, Guilds, Labs, and personal development budgets.

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric.
• Good understanding of modern data platform architectures and data engineering ecosystems.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and platform operations.
• Strong Python development skills with experience building automation tools and operational utilities.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Solid understanding of platform engineering and DevOps best practices.
• Knowledge of cloud security principles, governance frameworks, and compliance requirements.
• Experience implementing identity and access management, security controls, auditing, and access governance.
• Understanding of data platform security, operational governance, and reliability best practices.
• Experience collaborating with Data Engineers, Architects, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have:

• Hands-on experience delivering Microsoft Fabric implementations.
• Experience with large-scale data platform modernization or migration programs.
• Databricks administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and alerting platforms.
• Familiarity with data governance tools and frameworks.
• Experience with dbt, Apache Airflow, or other modern data platform technologies.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
• Experience supporting platform adoption and engineering enablement across multiple teams.

General:

• Participating in discovery workshops and technical assessments of existing data platform environments.
• Defining platform requirements and contributing to migration strategy and roadmap planning.
• Collaborating with Data Engineers, Architects, and business stakeholders to design target-state architecture.
• Supporting migration of data workloads, pipelines, and platform services to Azure, Databricks, and/or Microsoft Fabric.
• Producing technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams throughout the migration journey.

Infrastructure & Platform:

• Building and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices with Terraform.
• Designing, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes-based platform environments.
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated provisioning, deployment, and operations.
• Establishing monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational processes.
• Optimizing reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of the platform.

Security & Governance:

• Implementing security, governance, identity management, and access control standards.

Work from the European Union region and a work permit are required.